Aspire Art Auctions announces team

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Mary-Jane Darroll, who is an MAFA graduate from Wits University, is a former Curator of the Standard Bank Gallery and Corporate Collection. During her tenure at the Bank she was also Fine Art Coordinator of the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Subsequently she was Head of the Paintings Department at Stephan Welz & Co/Sotheby’s and later a Director at Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg. She is also a founder member and Executive Director of Strauss & Co and most recently a Curator and Art Project Director at the Nirox Sculpture Park.

After graduating with a Fine Arts degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Ruarc Peffers began his career as intern for Stephan Welz & Co/Sotheby’s and progressed to become Director and Head of the Paintings Department. He completed an MSc degree in History, Curating and Criticism at the University of Edinburgh. He worked in the primary market with Blank Projects and in the NGO field with the Visual Arts Network of South Africa. More recently he returned to the auction industry as Senior Art Specialist and auctioneer at Strauss & Co. He has worked on many local and international art fairs – most recently Frieze London and The Cape Town Art Fair. He regularly conducts charity auctions for Artist Proof Studios, ABSA, Art Angels, the Cancer Association, WWF and the Wits School of Art, amongst others.

Emma Bedford was employed from 1981 until 2006 at the South African National Gallery, where as Senior Curator and Head of Art Collections, she curated exhibitions ranging from Maggie Laubser to Marlene Dumas and collaborated on the first local museum exhibition for William Kentridge (2002). She promoted young artists through Fresh, a series of residencies and monographs and drove the acquisition of works of art by young artists such as Nicholas Hlobo, Nandipha Mntambo and Zanele Muholi.

She has several years’ experience as Senior Art Specialist at a leading auction house and was the first Director of Goodman Gallery Cape where she worked closely with many of South Africa’s top artists.

Jacqui Carney graduated from Wits Art School with a BAFA. She started as an intern for a leading South African auction firm where she has become head cataloguer and researcher, specializing in South African art. She is involved in the entire ambit of client liaison, valuation, cataloguing, clerking, telephone bidding and producing of all recent auctions.

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